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Soundies (selected work 1980-2001)
Moniek Darge has been active as a composer, violinist, performer and audio artist since the early '70s. She is most widely recognized as one half of the pioneering new music group Logos Duo alongside her partner Godfried-Willem Raes. The Logos Duo, which operates under the umbrella of the Logos Foundation, have been celebrated both at home in their native Gent, Belgium and on the international stage. They have performed their work in countries as diverse as Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and the US.…
Sounds of Sacred Places
**500 copies** Remastered digital issue of perhaps Moniek Darge’s defining 1987 LP (originally issued on the storied brussels-based igloo imprint) . Five pieces recorded throughout the early & mid-80’s :: “turkish square” (“soundscapes, voices, violin, n-dimensional oscillator system”) works a slowly morphing / heterodyning electronic pulse (ala Roland Kayn) under street-captures & sound-events in ghent ... “abbey sounds” is a collage-piece weaving location recordings & reflections on st. bavo a…
Seattle Symphony
Kye is proud to present Seattle Symphony, the new LP by Poughkeepsie's Joe McPhee. 'Seattle has become my home away from home, my second city, since first being invited to join trombonist Stuart Dempster for duets in 1984. When the opportunity for a solo concert arose, I learned of the passing of Bill Dixon and Fred Anderson and decided to make the focus of the performance a celebration of the lives, and music, of these two legendary heroes, who both passed away in June of 2010, within 8 days of…
Clear and Cloud
Kye is proud to announce the release of Clear and Cloud, the debut LP by Alec Livaditis. Recorded over the summer of 2015, Clear and Cloud showcases Alec's unique vision for extended cello technique across two varying settings. Side A's 'Clear and Cloud' presents Livaditis (cello, objects) and Killick Hinds (Vo-96 guitar) live in an extraneous sound environment, where music and conversation seek to undermine each other in a morose and thrilling tussle, whereas Side B's 'Through The Open Window' …
The Paris Concert
** restocked** Kye is proud to present The Paris Concert, the second installment in our Joe McPhee archival series, following 2015's To Be Continued. Recorded May 13th 2015 The Paris Concert documents a historical private performance held in a 5th floor Paris apartment to an invited audience of 15 people. '40 years after a chance meeting in 1975 at The American Center in Paris, Raymond Boni (guitar), Jean Marc Foussat (synthesizer) and Joe McPhee (tenor/pocket trumpet) reunite with an impromptu …
Hh
**Edition of 300 copies, ythis is the final Kye release** Kye is proud to announce the release of HH the new LP by Gabi Losoncy. HH bundles two sides of psychologically dense nothingness into one perfectly realized whole. Clear vinyl. Losoncy-designed packaging. The coffin lid comes down on the rainbow. Edition of 300 copies
Absence
**Edition of 250 copies** Kye is proud to announce the release of Absence, the new LP by Maths Balance Volumes. Side A presents material recorded live at the Arts Center of St. Peter, Minnesota as part of Free Form Freakout's 'An Evening of Experimental and Improvised Sound' (04/21/17) while Side B gathers unreleased home recordings from the previous decade. Visionary cassette-based constructs with enough crude mechanics and smudged internal logic to delight the corpse of Arthur Pétronio.
Being Small
Kye is proud to present Being Small, the new LP by Matthew Revert. Lovely collection of Matthew's philosophies, worldviews and wisdom recorded cheaply at his home in Melbourne, Australia. Being Small arrives in a Matthew Revert designed sleeve with matching labels in an edition of 300 copies.Matthew Revert is a designer, writer and musician from Melbourne, Australia. He has developed a reputation as one of the preeminent graphic designers in the small press world, having given his unique touch t…
Sacred Balinese Soundies, Mauro's Song
Kye is proud to announce the release of Sacred Balinese Soundies, Mauro's Song, the third installment in Moniek Darge's travelogue Soundies series following on from Crete Soundies (2010) and Indian Soundies (2014). 'Mauro's Song is dedicated to the boy child, whose journey in this world lasted only three years, and was so short he learned just one song - Mauro's Song - to be sung amidst the sounds of the universe. Mauro's journey can be likened to the life span of a single day, from dawn to suns…
OM Entering. And Once Entered
"The latest LP from veteran fluxus composer Philip Corner. OM Entering. and Once Enterd comprises four previously unreleased recordings with the Barton Workshop, taken from performances in the Netherlands, and South Korea, between 2000-2007. 'Om Entrance which one does....because the performance is a real "passage from the material to the spiritual" unless the "real" world is just as spiritual already which i like to think it is. As perhaps an everyday awareness is already to be entranced …
Community
Kye is proud to announce the release of Community, the new solo LP by Graham Lambkin, following 2011’s Amateur Doubles. “Community is a music steeped in sociological review. It sits as a keen barometer, taking the temperature of the world around it. Community is both willing servant and social mirror – it performs its basic civic duty without fuss, then shatters.” (José Perez)Mastered by Jason Lescalleet, Community arrives in a deluxe matte finish gatefold with corresponding printed inner-sleeve…
Lend an ear, leave a word
Kye is proud to present ‘Lend an ear, leave a word’ the new LP from Glasgow’s Mark Vernon. “The pieces composed for this album combine field recordings of contemporary Lisbon with found tape recordings from the past; reel-to-reel tapes, micro-cassettes and Dictaphones collected from the Feira de Ladra market, a popular and lively flea market in the Alfarma district. Each tape recording is an audio snapshot of a specific time; a family album in sound, a musical performance, a compilation o…
Cofradia Nautica
Kye is proud to present ‘Cofradia Nautica’ the debut LP by Chile’s Glorias Navales, and the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Carta a Maureen Tucker’ cassette on ETCS. “Glorias Navales is a band based in Santiago, Chile, who combine local folk traditions and paganism with a post-Velvets aesthetic. Imagine Lou Reed, John Cale and Violeta Parra together, doing late night acoustic lo-fi trance jams in a rural area of Chile.” (Ivan Daguer) Drawn from live concert tapes recorded at BYM Records, and recordin…
Home of the Blues
Kye is proud to present Home of the Blues, the latest LP by Dan Melchior, and his sophomore effort for the label following 2012's now legendary Excerpts (& Half-Speeds). For Home of the Blues Dan agreed to undergo a series of exercises aimed not only at destabilizing his natural songwriting process, but also testing the durability of the blues idiom when placed under stress. As one would expect, Dan met the challenge with aplomb, hoisting the project beyond some one-dimensional art-school pr…
Farm Stories
Kye is proud to announce the release of Farm Stories, the second archival collection from the extinct duo of Adris Hoyos and Graham Lambkin. Unlike the hermetic Rise of Elklink LP, Farm Stories features creative use of the great outdoors, recorded in 2002 at Green Chimneys rehabilitation center for children and animals, in Brewster, NY. We hear pigs, birds, thunder, cows, children, their parents, and planes. These recordings were then fed through a mixing board where Lambkin added Kurzweil K…
Nice Weather for War
Kye is proud to present 'Nice Weather for War' - the fabulous new release that showcases six of the most exciting music artists working today. Featuring exclusive, never before heard material by Shots, Blue Chemise, Gabi Losoncy, Russell Walker, Matthew Revert and T.D. 'Nice Weather for War' arrives in a 4-panel high gloss digipak with accompanying 8-page booklet in an edition of 400 copies
Full Circle Sounding
"Kye is proud to present 'Full Circle Sounding', the brand new LP by Montréal-based composer, improviser and violinist Malcolm Goldstein. 'Full Circle Sounding' comprises the complete recording of Goldstein's headline set at the 2014 Kye Festival, which took place at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY: 'Judson Piece #6 (with improvised violin extensions)', "but one bird sang not", and 'Sheep Meadow (with improvised violin extensions), plus an additional new studio improvisation 'Soundings', reco…
To be continued
Outstanding!! Kye is proud to present the release of 'To Be Continued', a previously unpublished 1973 performance, documenting the first meeting of Joe McPhee and John Snyder.
"On a Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1973, a group of mostly non-professional musicians/music lovers, literally friends and neighbors came together to present a concert in a communal ritual Ancient to the Future, for friends and neighbors at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY. The Episcopal order graciously ma…
Food Court
Kye is proud to present the eponymous debut LP by Australia's Food Court. Centered around the core trio of James Rushford, Joe Talia and Francis Plagne - (alongside contributions from Yuko Kono, Chloë Smith, Alexander Garsden, Nat Grant, Simon Charles and Callum G'Froerer) - Food Court present two live interpretations of Solage's 'fumeux fume par fumee', driving the curious nature of the original composition into radical and extreme new open space. 'Food Court' arrives in a Karla Pringle designe…
Not You
Kye is proud to present the first fully authorized collection of sound work by esteemed Australian novelist Matthew Revert. 'Not You' takes Revert's diaristic/voyeuristic narrations and casts them against a loose-footing of home-recorded 4-track scrabble, iPhone overload, and migratory acoustic dreamsong. These constituent parts combine and flourish in a creative rite of passage that affirms 'Not You' as both hermetic tour-de-force, and masterpiece of primitive self-expression. Mastered b…